The October 2020 issue of Transcultural Psychiatry addresses the concept of loneliness anthropologically. As the special issue editors state in their introduction: “In recent years, loneliness has…
Social Studies of Science Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age (OA) Wesley Shrum, John Aggrey, Andre Campos, Janaina Pamplona da Costa,…
Faschistische Strömungen haben nach Kriegsende in Italien nie aufgehört zu existieren. Die Ethnologin Lene Faust hat untersucht, wie deren Anhänger leben, wie sie denken, handeln und sich erinnern.…
At once an examination of geology, a biography of monuments, and a meditation on the connection between personal loss and massive loss, Hugh Raffles’ The Book of Unconformities: Speculations…
This is another post in a series devoted to better understanding the place of Native North American and First Nations studies within the field of folklore studies as…
Trump oder Biden – Amerika hat gewählt. Anstelle eines normalen Artikels publizieren wir daher heute nur ein, zwei kurze Bemerkungen von den Herausgeberinnen und Herausgebern über diesen für…
La foto és de Adrian Page Artículo publicado en El Periódico de Catalunya el 30 de mayo de 1990, a raíz de un alarmante informe del Fondo para…
During the nineteenth century, ideas about aging were changing. These ideas placed less of an emphasis on tradition and elders and focused…
مرکز مطالعات شهری دانشگاه بوفالو (UB) مرکز مطالعات شهری واحد اجتماعی و پژوهشی است که در دانشکده ی معماری و برنامه ریزی دانشگاه بوفالو واقع شده است. از…
معماری پس ار ۱۹۴۰ ـ برهه ایی که کمتر، بیشـــتر بود؛ تاریخ نگاری معماری مدرن[۱] نوشته ی جیـــــــــــــن مرکل[۲] برگردانی از ارش بـصـیرت[۳] متاسفانه، امروز بسیاری از خانه…
(نگاهی به کتاب زن ایرانی و پرنده من) برخلاف برخی از جوامع که در آن به سنت به مثابه امری معطوف به گذشته، نگریسته می شود در جامعه…
When life seems to be changing day by day, if not hour by hour, we look to sources of information that we have come to know and trust.…
La foto es de Ferran Delgado Del libro Ciudad líquida, ciudad interrumpida (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, 1999) LAS ESTRUCTURAS LÍQUIDAS DE LO URBANO Manuel Delgado Si la…
What is an art school? In Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Dr Silvie Jacobi, a researcher and head of…
Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States (University of California Press, 2019) offers an ethnography of adoption processes in the United States through…
With Covid-19 showing no sign of abating, mental health care (from ongoing therapy to helplines) continues to be an important site of treatment for many Americans. While traditional…
Hoy me siento decepcionado con el Homo Individualis concepto que me lo he sacado de la manga, no sé si existe la verdad y no me he parado…
The posts on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the AFS were done in a non-sequential way. Several…
Snowden, Frank M. (2019) Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. At the beginning of the present global…
Snowden, Frank M. (2019) Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. At the beginning of the present global…
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie e.V. schreibt zum zweiten Mal ihren Dissertationspreis aus. Dieser Preis soll der besonderen Anerkennung herausragender wissenschaftlicher…
The ability to communicate is often taken-for-granted and imperceptible, despite being vital to everyday life. It defines our social performances as family members, professionals, and neighbors. Moreo…
Interview by Georgia Ennis https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo28179073.html Georgia Ennis: At the center of your account are the travels and work of missionary Frederick Du Vernet,…